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I bet. I looked at signing up, but the password field is plain text. What's up w/ that?
by calvinf 16y ago
I bet. I looked at signing up, but the password field is plain text. What's up w/ that?
- idlewords 16y agoIt's pale plain text at password creation time, and regular password dots when you login. Saves having to have a 'confirm password' box.
- oneplusone 16y agoAnd instead makes me feel uncomfortable storing my data with you. Doesn't seem like a worthwhile tradeoff
- blasdel 16y agoI've been a huge fan of you for years, I've read almost everything you've written online a couple times over, and I'm asking you to please stop listening to Jakob Nielsen. Please. The most fundamental kernel of usability is "does what I expect", and everybody expects password masking everywhere. Everybody expects to type their password twice to register and once to login (the only fundamental distinction!). Everybody is extraordinarily habituated to typing their passwords blind, it's of absolutely no use to display them. Really, the minimum result you get is that people take longer to sign up because they pause to be infuriated at your design decision. Don't try to redefine a fundamental UI component that has a universally consistent implementation and is totally orthogonal to the innovative bits of your app. Seriously, stop being an asshole and always use <input type=password> for user-chosen secrets.
- StavrosK 16y agoTry http://historio.us/ http://historio.us/, we have a password confirmation field! Aaand that is one sentence I thought I'd never get to utter. Seriously though, pinboard is great too, and closer to the functionality of delicious. It's mostly a matter of preference.
- JoshCole 16y agoHave you tested whether it leads to more or less sign ups?
- bnycum 16y agoSorry, after seeing this I didn't sign up. Might seem petty and I realize that the plain text field is sent the same as a password field, but at least maybe change the sign up page to use your secure site by default. Doesn't look like you had a bad day of business though.
- lemming 16y agoThis also prevents the pwdhash plugin I have installed from working. I agree with the other commenters - this is a bad design decision. Don't make things inconsistent and arbitrary, please.
- xiongchiamiov 16y agoIt surprised me, but then I went "huh, that makes sense" and continued on. Guess I'm the odd one out.
- jawee 16y agoIt still caused you to pause and slowed down your experience though.